100 Bikes for 100 Girls

by Rock-Paper-Scissors Children's Fund
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100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls

Project Report | Jan 21, 2021
The Long Ride to School

By Sara Nerone | Founder

Thi and her new bicycle and helmet
Thi and her new bicycle and helmet

Dear Friends,

Happy 2021, we are all looking forward to, and hoping for a better year this year. Thank you for your commitment and compassion for others around the world, we are especially thanking all of your continued support for our bikes for girls program in Vietnam. In 2020, collectively you helped to provide bicycles to 480 girls who live and travel to school on rural roads in Vietnam. This year it is expected to be a difficult year for girls around the world, with the pandemic expected to push 47 million more women and girls into poverty. In Vietnam, trafficking of women and girls continues to be a major problem, including the exploitation of children under the age of 16, and “adults” over the age of 16 into forced labor in the garment and other industries (U.S State Department-2020 Trafficking in Persons Report: Vietnam). Although we are a small volunteer-run non-profit, please be proud that you have helped to make a difference for girls. Not only have the bike recipients been given a way to make school more accessible to them, but through publicity locally and bringing the attention of the support for girls and their education from all of you across the world, is making a difference with the local schools and government in saying that girl’s education matters. You are making a difference.

In 2020 we began to expand our bike givings to include more rural, mountainous area schools. Our team must travel hours round-trip up into the mountains to get to some of the schools, but thanks to our donors we have been able to afford the transportation costs to carry the bikes there, approximately $100USD/trip. To give you an idea about the lives of girls in these villages, we wanted to share this one story about Thi.

Thi is 15 years old and attends middle school in the mountainous village of Khanh Son, a two hour drive from Cam Lam where our staff live. Khanh Son is one of the poorest areas in Khanh Hoa province with the majority of the people belonging to ethnic minority groups. For Thi, she must travel one hour by bicycle to get to school. She told us that she had to wake up at 5:00am and leave her home at 5:30am to make it to school by 6:30. Thi does this every day, and her teachers report that she is always on time and is a great, great student. On days when there are afternoon classes, students who live close by go home for lunch and ake the traditional mid-day rest and then return to school, but Thi packs some food and stays at the school to rest because of the distance back to her home.

For Thi going to school is something special, because her family members before her either never went to school or dropped out at an early age. Next year, she is planning to go to high school, which in Vietnam for most minority girls living in these rural villages, is a tremendous accomplishment. The high school that she will be attending is the only one in the village, and it takes an additional 15 minutes to reach. Thi was so happy to receive her new bicycle to help her make this daily journey.

Thank you for supporting the many girls like Thi.

If you have not seen our latest newsletter we are sure that you will love all of the things that were accomplished in 2020 with you as our partners. Please click here or copy the link below into your browser:

https://mailchi.mp/6cc2a26da179/rock-paper-scissors-childrens-fund-in-2020?e=c757f065e3

Sara and the Rock-Paper-Scissors Team

Thi and her pink bike!
Thi and her pink bike!
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Rock-Paper-Scissors Children's Fund

Location: Wakefield, RI - USA
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Project Leader:
Sara Nerone
Wakefield , RI United States

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